What! No Beer?
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Although he has never met her, Elmer Butts loves Hortense secretly and from afar. He dreams of making a million dollars so he can buy her a Rolls automobile and marry her. With prohibition apparently on the verge of ending, Elmer's friend Jimmy Potts gets an idea to make them both rich by opening a brewery just before the legalization of alcoholic beverages. Their timing is off, and the police raid them, but their inept brewing has created a beer with no alcohol, so they are ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in What! No Beer?:

Buster Keaton
Jimmy Durante
Roscoe Ates
Phyllis Barry
John Miljan
Henry Armetta

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Although he has never met her, Elmer Butts loves Hortense secretly and from afar. He dreams of making a million dollars so he can buy her a Rolls automobile and marry her. With prohibition apparently on the verge of ending, Elmer's friend Jimmy Potts gets an idea to make them both rich by opening a brewery just before the legalization of alcoholic beverages. Their timing is off, and the police raid them, but their inept brewing has created a beer with no alcohol, so they are let off. But it has also resulted in a cheaply made beer, and bootlegger Spike Moran realizes that he can vastly increase his profits by partnering with Elmer and Jimmy. But none of them reckons with the competitor, another bootlegger, gangster Butch Lorado. Butch has a girlfriend....Elmer's dream girl, Hortense.

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Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 6/10 by Dennis SchwartzThe weak Prohibition comedy is never funny.
User Review - 6/10 by Matthew OWhat! No Beer? is often marked as the lowest point in Buster Keaton's career, the time when he lost all creative freedom on his films and was made a victim of the studio system over at MGM, forced to make unfunny film after unfunny film. After hearing that from every Keaton aficionado I was hesitant on watching this movie, but once it was over I was surprised to find it was actually pretty good. Even at the beginning it's obvious to see that this is a major improvement over Buster's first sound film Free and Easy. For one thing he's actually allowed to be in it, and even more surprising allowed to be funny! You might be thinking this is MGM's version of Buster, most of the time called Elmer, so how is that possible? Well, MGM didn't think wisely enough to give freedom back to him, but they did realize their scripts for him weren't enough to hold a good film, so they gave him a partner, the just as talented Jimmy Durante. Unlike Buster Jimmy's allowed to do his own thing, which is being the energy packed, loud mouthed wonderful smart aleck he is. This not only puts MGM Buster into some comedic motion, but keeps the momentum going as well, making him the best thing that ever happened to MGM comedy, which is notorious for slowing down laughs for boring romantic sub plots. Now, the jokes aren't on the level of Steamboat Bill Jr. or Our Hospitality, but they get the job done, and unlike other MGM comedies (the poor Marx Bros. got the worse of this) they aren't cramped by meaningless scenes to lengthen the plot. On the subject of the plot, it also gets the job done, there's nothing too complex about it, but it works well enough to bring the gags together. In the end, the best phrase for this movie is "It gets the job done", it'll make you laugh a good amount of times, not to a silent Buster degree, but enough to make this a worthwhile picture. If you're a Buster Keaton fan this is definitely one of his sound movies to add to your collection, especially for the finale, which is one big, funny, and inventive joke that wouldn't be out of place in one of his classics.
User Review - 6/10 by Luke WWhat! No Beer? is often marked as the lowest point in Buster Keaton's career, the time when he lost all creative freedom on his films and was made a victim of the studio system over at MGM, forced to make unfunny film after unfunny film. After hearing that from every Keaton aficionado I was hesitant on watching this movie, but once it was over I was surprised to find it was actually pretty good. Even at the beginning it's obvious to see that this is a major improvement over Buster's first sound film Free and Easy. For one thing he's actually allowed to be in it, and even more surprising allowed to be funny! You might be thinking this is MGM's version of Buster, most of the time called Elmer, so how is that possible? Well, MGM didn't think wisely enough to give freedom back to him, but they did realize their scripts for him weren't enough to hold a good film, so they gave him a partner, the just as talented Jimmy Durante. Unlike Buster Jimmy's allowed to do his own thing, which is being the energy packed, loud mouthed wonderful smart aleck he is. This not only puts MGM Buster into some comedic motion, but keeps the momentum going as well, making him the best thing that ever happened to MGM comedy, which is notorious for slowing down laughs for boring romantic sub plots. Now, the jokes aren't on the level of Steamboat Bill Jr. or Our Hospitality, but they get the job done, and unlike other MGM comedies (the poor Marx Bros. got the worse of this) they aren't cramped by meaningless scenes to lengthen the plot. On the subject of the plot, it also gets the job done, there's nothing too complex about it, but it works well enough to bring the gags together. In the end, the best phrase for this movie is "It gets the job done", it'll make you laugh a good amount of times, not to a silent Buster degree, but enough to make this a worthwhile picture. If you're a Buster Keaton fan this is definitely one of his sound movies to add to your collection, especially for the finale, which is one big, funny, and inventive joke that wouldn't be out of place in one of his classics.

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